I’ll admit, my lack of posting in the last two months is depressing. Quite depressing. Being bogged down in schoolwork is most of the reason, but that’s really no kind of excuse that I wish to invoke. In fact, the reason this blog got started almost exactly one year ago was as a deliberate distraction from exam preparation. I wanted to remind myself that even though school was hell, there were still things in life that I found joy in and could get excited about. This semester, rather than seeking to be energized from a productive distraction while studying, I mainly just felt suicidal. Kidding! (Kind of.)
But don’t worry—I still very much enjoy writing on here. So much so that the other reason that I haven’t been posting as much is because I’ve been considering some changes/enhancements to the blog after running it throughout the last year. It will be nothing serious, but here are a few changes you can expect in the near future:
1. A new weekly Friday column that I will be rolling out this week called “Film Friday.” I’m pretty excited about this, and I’ll explain more when I unveil it.
2. Film news/rumors/awards season chat: Most of my entries as of now consist of 1,000-word prose on random topics that I just feel like writing about in that moment. And I will keep doing that for sure. However, posting news will be a way that I can update the site more than once every week or two—I hope with this that I will be posting on here at least twice a week, if not more, and that it will be a place that you can check several times a week for my thoughts on random things going on.
3. Twitter handle. You can now follow me @adamswindow on Twitter!!!! Woohoo!!! I joined the 21st century!!! No but seriously, I love twitter and spend unjustifiable amounts of time on it. The only problem is that I never tweet. Mostly because I prefer to communicate with my friends over facebook. But this is a way that I can tweet new columns when they are up, tweet when I’m watching movies, post random news, etc. In fact, my personal twitter account could very well just go away and vanish into thin air.
So those are just three ideas that I’m currently working with, although there are others that I’m tossing around. If you have any other ideas you would like to share about how to improve the site, feel free to let me know.
In other news, Happy Holidays everyone. I hope everyone gets to catch up on some holiday films during their time off from work/school (What’s that? You spend time with family during the holidays and don’t watch ridiculous amounts of movies? Weird.) There’s been some GREAT stuff coming out lately in theatres, and I’ve hardly been able to keep up. I plan on writing about a few of them really soon. I also hope to catch a few of my favorite Christmas films over the next few days. What are my favorite Christmas films, you ask? I think this calls for a top-5 list!
1. Home Alone
2. A Muppet Christmas Carol
3. White Christmas
4. A Christmas Story
5. A Charlie Brown Christmas
937. Jingle All The Way
That’s all I’ve got for today, but remember to check back Friday for my new weekly column and to follow me on twitter @adamswindow.
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